Subject: bug#15875: 24.3.50; diff-mode counts first column when determining tab width

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 11:32:31 -0500

>> Note that diff-mode also handles diffs that have a mix of context-style
>> and unified-style hunks, but such a tab-offset feature wouldn't be able
>> to handle it correctly.  Not a big issue, tho.
> What if the tab width were a text property instead of a buffer variable?

Seems overkill.  The `space' display property already provides pretty
much that (among other things).

        Stefan